Things We Do in The Dark
Things We Do in The Dark – a scary title that means more than we think. Hillier has written a novel with as many secrets as dead bodies. Things We Do in The Dark is and is not what this book is about. Well, mostly it is, but not always in the scary way the […]
Always
Always – Love with a twist As one might surmise, Sarah Jio’s novel, Always, is a book about love. It’s love with a heart-wrenching twist, however, beginning with the opening scene. Kailey Crane, a successful newspaper reporter, and Ryan, her fiancé, are celebrating their engagement at a posh Seattle restaurant. After dinner, Ryan temporarily leaves […]
Passage to Juneau – Navigating sea, mind and heart
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings Raban’s Passage to Juneau doesn’t fit easily into a genre category. True, this is an absorbing, stylistic travel memoir in which he recounts his experiences while sailing a thirty-five foot ketch from Seattle to Juneau and back, about 2,000 miles. His experiences, however, include the history of […]
Mending the Moon
With Mending the Moon, Nevada writer Susan Palwick emerges as a major literary figure. Her work until now has been mostly in the field of science fiction with the novels Flying in Place and The Necessary Beggar and the short story collection The Fate of Mice. Never prolific, Palwick has spent most of her long […]